I’ll need to confirm on my shield (as compared to Fates), but SLEEP is really doing sudo shutdown now and is turning off the pi. The display may still show “sleep” on screen because the pi has power (and the red led on the pi will be on as well) - but the device is powered off. Thus you need to remove and reattach power to restart.

I don’t believe the “hold button to wake from sleep” (got norns hardware) works on RasPi norns

This is correct. The power-on behavior of monome norns requires specific power management hardware not compatible with shields.

Using Norns shield you have to hard powercycle the pi to turn it on, as with other pi applications. sleep is indeed strongly recommended to safely shutdown the systen

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As long as you shutdown using “sleep” in the menu or using something like shutdown over SSH/serial it’s all fine. That gives the system the option to properly shutdown, unmount the disks, etc.

Since a Raspberry Pi doesn’t properly turn off you’ll need to pull the power/plug to get it to fully turn off and connect it to power again when you want to start it (which will happen immediately since there’s no power button).

What do you mean with hard reset? There’s no reset button on a Raspberry Pi.

It’s alive, easier to assemble than the vellmann kits I made when i was a kid! Didn’t even get the supercollider fail at first boot, but maybe that’s not a thing anymore?

Hard reset as in pull the power plug and plug it back in.

Good to know. Shutting down properly was my main concern.

Thanks!

ICYMI:

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new image on this page -> https://monome.org/docs/norns/help/#manual-update

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Finished my build, running new image :slightly_smiling_face:
Huge thanks to all involved

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Hello everybody! Anyone has a clue about a place in Europe where to retrieve the components altogether? I found everything on Mouser except for the display: was able to find it on Luna-Displays from Germany, but the shipping cost raises up quite a bit. If nothing comes up I’ll go for it, but I’d like to hear if there’s an alternative I don’t know about :slight_smile:

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Anyone out there have a micrometer that could give me the height of the display above the shield PCB with the standard headers from the BOM? in mm?

I used a different header/pin combo and I’m curious if they’re the same or not.

Twenty characters of 8mm.

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Where are you based?
Digikey have them in stock and I am just missing the screen.
I can get two from digikey and we can share costs.
I am in France so if you are as well this will be much easier.

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I’m in northern Italy.

If I understand correctly, the display is still a missing piece, right? My issue is trying to avoid an extra shipment exclusively for it.

I’d love to share costs but am actually looking for a reseller where I’d be able to buy all the components (screen included). On the other hand we could talk about splitting the display shipping costs in half, but I think that it wouldn’t change that much since we’d still need to mail the components over from France to Italy (or vice-versa) and face the relative fee which I guess it’s gonna be around 15€ at least…

I’m open to discuss this if anything comes up: feel free to send me a pm :slight_smile:

I picked up the same keyboard for Orca :slight_smile: good call!

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Hello everyone,
To not pay shipping costs, I have just bought two screens (in yellow) from digikey.
Of course I only need one, so if there is anyone in France interested, please PM me.
The cost will be what I have paid plus shipping (€3 France to france) plus any import duty I am going to pay (probably nothing).

how does this connect to norns, via wifi?

Bluetooth via a dongle in one of the usb slots

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is anyone doing builds of these? the last time I tried to do a basic kit it never really went anywhere

on norns shield - when I plug in my arc (walnut arc4, ed. 2011) all rings flash continuously, scripts don’t (seem) to get any data. also disables grid while it’s plugged in (same issue w/ only arc though).

can anyone else with a shield test arc ? I think my arc worked with a vanilla norns I borrowed a while back which makes me think it’s a shield issue but someone could prove me wrong.

if they’re flashing continuously it’s possibly a power issue (ie, arc is resetting). are you using a high-current usb supply?

it’s a rpi3 one - 5V 2.5A